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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-32/
- Published: 2015-11-06T12:00:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:42:54.000Z
- Description: Number of sculptures the Rodin Museum in Paris is allowed to cast from each original Rodin mold = 12
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: Art, Sum of the Arts, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:13 (2014, 2015, part 3)

![Jacques-Laurent Agasse, "The Nubian Giraffe" (1827) (via Royal Collection), a painting of the first giraffe to arrive in Great Britain](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/11/nubiangiraffe.jpg)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse, “The Nubian Giraffe” (1827), a painting of the first giraffe to arrive in Great Britain (via Royal Collection)

[*Sum of the Arts*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/sum-of-the-arts/) *is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.*

- Year the first giraffe [arrived in Great Britain](http://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2015/nov/03/gift-diplomacy-king-george-giraffe-britain-brighton-exhbition?ref=hyperallergic.com), after which it was illustrated by naturalists and artists like Jacques-Laurent Agasse and inspired a rapid “giraffemania” = **1827**
- Number of sculptures the Rodin Museum in Paris [is allowed to cast](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/arts/design/recasting-rodins-life-and-work.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) from each original Rodin mold = **12**
- Number of structures that make up the American Museum of Natural History, which [revealed the design](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/arts/design/museum-of-natural-history-reveals-design-for-expansion.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) for its new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation this week = **25**
- Length in inches of a 1,200-year-old Viking sword [found by a hiker](http://www.afp.com/en/news/hiker-finds-1200-year-old-viking-sword-norway?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the Norwegian mountains = **30**
- Number of hours Giorgio Vasari’s “Last Supper” (1546), finally nearing restoration, [was underwater](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/decades-florences-great-flood-art-hospital-renews-still-damaged-treasures/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the 1966 Florence flood = **48**
- Number of euros a day [tossed into Rome’s Trevi Fountain](http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/04/romes-trevi-fountain-reopens-after-24m-restoration.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) before its restoration, which was completed this month with the addition of a basin just for coins = **2,000-3,000**
- Number of artworks [in the collection of Boston Children’s Hospital](http://www.wsj.com/articles/art-donors-give-to-smaller-nonprofits-1446433546?ref=hyperallergic.com), one of a number of hospitals building collections through donations = **5,000**
- Number of words in a judgment determining that a skull — believed by some to be Shakespeare’s — [would not be DNA tested](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11968936/Shakespeares-skull-rumours-DNA-testing-barred-by-Church.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **7,000**
- Number of miniature items, including a polar bear skin rug and tiny 19th-century books, that fill the [Astolat Dollhouse Castle](http://www.astolatdollhousecastle.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), known as the world’s priciest dollhouse and [going on view in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle](http://www.6sqft.com/the-worlds-most-expensive-dollhouse-will-be-on-show-at-columbus-circle-this-month/?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **10,000**
- Amount (in $US) the Phillips, Sotheby’s, and Christie’s auction houses in New York hope to make [in two November weeks](http://www.wsj.com/articles/art-auction-rivals-aim-to-hammer-each-other-1446602763?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **2,000,000,000**